Finding Your Color Season
Know What Colors Suit You Best
The first consideration in finding your color season is your skin undertone. Is it cool, warm, clear or muted? To discover the undertone of your skin, dress in white or hold white paper up to your face. Make sure that your face is free of any makeup. In the most natural light possible, look at your skin. Yellow undertones indicate a warm undertone. Blue undertones are cool. Those with clear undertones have more of a translucent quality to their skin. People with muted undertones find their undertones are softer.
Winter=cool and clear undertones. Spring=warm and clear undertones. Summer=cool and muted undertones. Autumn=warm and muted undertones.
The second part of finding your color season is to determine which eye pattern you have. This is a very interesting part of finding your color season and requires you to discover something about your iris that you may have never noticed before. Each season has a characteristic eye pattern. The brighter the light in the place you are in, the easier it will be to see your eye pattern.
Winter=a spoke pattern. Spring=a round sunburst. Summer=delicate cracked glass. Autumn=an Aztec sun with swirls and spots.
Your combination of hair and color will help you in finding your color season.
Winter=Hair is black, dark brown, chestnut, lacking highlights. Eye color tends to span the normal brown, blue, hazel or green. Spring=Hair is golden brown, blond or red and the eyes are blue, blue-gray, green or turquoise green. Summer=Hair is without highlights and is typically ash blonde or ash brown. Eyes are blue, brown, green or hazel. Autumn=Hair is golden and brown, red, auburn or chestnut and eyes are dark brown, hazel or green.
One of the most ways of finding your color season is to check out the personality traits of each season.
Winter=loyalty, perfectionism, analytical, dependable, truthful and reserved. Spring=Friendly, energetic, optimistic, curious, witty, smiling. Summer=practical, neat, easy going, gentle, understanding, good listener. Autumn=self-discipline, confident, leader, organizer, dependable, loyal.
So now you that you have taken the steps necessary for finding your color season, what colors should you wear?
Winter=avoid earth tones. Richer, more intense colors like black, navy blue and red look good on winters. Icy blues and pinks will also compliment the winter coloring.
Spring=do not wear dark colors. Better suited for spring coloring are peach, coral, aqua and ivory.
Summer=no intense colors. Powder blue, pink, and other pastels look good on those with summer coloring.
Autumn=bright colors do not look good on Autumns. Warm colors like beige, orange and brown work best with Autumn coloring.
Published by Laura Ballard
I am an intern in Marriage and Family Therapy and working toward licensure in MFT and PC. I have a BS in psychology and sociology. View profile
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- Those with winter and summer color seasons have cool undertones.
- Those with spring and autumn color seasons have warm undertones.
- Your eye pattern and personality can help to determine your color season.
7 Comments
Post a CommentDon't try to figure out your coloring based on reading this article. It's simply 'cliff notes' ripped straight from the Color me Beau...ul website. Go do the interactive pages for free for yourself. It's not a foolproof system, and it relies WAY too much on hair color instead of skin coloring - which is what really matters, but is harder to describe in giving instructions. And when it comes to hair color only your REAL hair color counts when answering the questions.
I really don't like the idea of 'all redheads are Autumns'. As a natural auburn-chestnut redhead, I've been getting plagued with that. It wouldn't irk me so much if I truly had Autumn coloring through and through (and actually look awesome in Autumn's palettes), but I don't. I have: the eye coloring of an Autumn AND Winter, the iris marks of a Summer, the skin of a Winter, AND the main personality of a Winter. So please, PLEASE tell me that I don't have to be an Autumn just because some outdated advice tells me I have to be?
I am a born autumn but I have really pale skin and look better in winter colors. Since by birth hair is black, I dyed my hair black to be a full winter. But like Sarah asked, I think we can wear colors from all seasons. I can look good in all colors unless it clashes with my skin tone.
Can you be more than one color season? I have the Spring eye pattern, the sunburst around my pupil is brown but then i also have a green color around the brown sunburst,I have an Autumn personality, a warm skin tone which is Spring AND Autumn and golden brown hair which is also Spring and Autumn.
What if you dye your hair? Are there certain colors to look for that will match your skin season?
The color that is still in my hair makes me wonder if I'm an Autumn but my roots steer me towards Winter.
how do you get your color chart?
I don't think your personality has much to do with your coloring does it?